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Review: The Overlook
Michael Connelly delivers a weak Harry Bosch novel.
Review: Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane manages to write a novel that is too noir for Nic.
Review: The Big Switch
Nice book on the commoditization of corporate IT services. Worth reading for anybody in the field.
Review: Heat
Entertaining book about a man’s obsessive quest to become a professional chef.
Corporate communications at its finest
Cox Communications isn’t great at, well, communicating.
Review: Perdido Street Station
Excellent fantasy from China Miéville.
Lost in the woods
Nic loses sight of his daughter at the store and freaks out.
Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora
A tentative debut novel from Scott Lynch.
Game changer: Flip Video
How the Flip Video is turning the amateur video recording industry on its head.
Review: Nature Girl
Carl Hiaasen wants you to not visit Florida.
Review: Bleeding Hearts
A disappointing non-Rebus novel from Ian Rankin.
The G-rated Internet
Nic highly recommends OpenDNS if you have children who use the Internet.
Movie roundup, part six
Stranger than Fiction, The Black Dahlia, Blades of Glory, Hot Fuzz, Zero Kelvin and March of the Penguins.
Review: JPod
Douglas Coupland continues the exploration of the lives of tech workers he started in Microserfs.
Review: Right as Rain
Hard boiled crime fiction from one of the writers for The Wire.
She rules the night
Nic’s daughter loses her first tooth and the tooth fairy is off to a shaky start.